As a boy one of your driving forces is to make your Father proud. A lot of what I’ve accomplished are in many ways attempts at making my Father proud of me. now I’ll forever be quietly less motivated because he’s no longer here. It’s something I never thought of, something I couldn’t have been prepared for. What do you do when part of your reasoning is gone? Like missing brain matter.
I’ll probably keep on punishing myself for a great many things, like distance, frequency of phone calls and lack of interest in his trade but that will pass I’m told.
I was told so many things since it happened and so many tried to comfort me. However I do not want their comfort, I will not take their comfort. Today I will be without comfort and if I die today I will die uncomforted.

I come fresh from my first ever Moth here in the D.  The Moth is a interesting event where people get 5 minutes to tell a story.  There is a basic theme for the night and you just go up and tell your story.  A few caveats, no notes, stand-up or ranting.  It needs to be real and pretty much of the moment.  I put my name in the hat thinking I wouldn’t be called but as the ninth name was pulled from the hat it just happen to sound like my name.  So I made my way to the stage and stood in front of the microphone with the stage lights in my eyes.  I’ve been in that position before so knowing what to do came pretty easy.  The lights make it difficult to see the audience so the nerves calm a bit.  I told my story pausing for laughter and awes.  All in all it went really well and the applause when I was done was invigorating. I walked back to my drink with people saying that was a great story and great delivery and so on and so forth.  The adulation was amazing, I could have done that all night.

I heard the news and stared blankly at my computer. People asked me if I was ok, I told them he died.  When they didn’t know who he was I could do little with my vision.  Suddenly the figures asking me questions evaporated like funny smells in the winter cold.  I closed my eyes and tasted salt for a second and continued working.

I kept typing and those figures walked off.  I kept typing and wondered if the figures would appear again.  I kept typing.

Dear he, Thank you.

I made my first dashboard widget a few days ago and I’m surprised at the positive response. I made a remote control for the social media platform Boxee. If you happen to run Boxee and want to control it from your Mac laptop download it and give it a try.

I’ve already had some requests for a windows version so I will try to port the code over to a gadget soon. Or maybe a Yahoo widget as well. If you really want a linux port of some kind let me know and what widget platform would be best.

Links:
Life Hacker
Tech Startups

I was a little bored this sunday and decided to paint as well as record it. Enjoy!

Over a decade ago I made my first website. A horribly designed personal site written in notepad. I remember the title being A Dreamer’s Workshop, I was a freshman in high-school so I hadn’t quite grasped the idea of horrid cliches yet. In addition my sense of aesthetics wasn’t well developed either so my GeoCities page was a horrific blend of large tables and dark backgrounds and possibly animated gifs. The iconic flying toaster was a part of it I believe. It’s the kind of page that if I see today I immediately throw up a little in my mouth.

It was a strange time in web development, because everything was new and nothing really looked bad because nothing really looked good yet. We hadn’t had the medium long enough for anyone to truly develop as a proper designer yet. So even with the flying toasters it was a decent page for the time. Nonetheless I will forever associate the beginnings of personal pages with GeoCities, so I’m a little saddened that today it closes it’s doors.

RIP GeoCities

I finally got my invite to Google wave and it looks like the many youtube videos I have seen of it so far. It’s fairly responsive and things seem to work well-ish. There are some noticeable bugs, like folder organizing not being as smooth as it should be etc. The biggest problem with Wave at this point is I have no one to wave to. No one I know has a wave account. Google has pulled the direct invite method and gone to an invite queuing method. I’ve read reports of people getting their accounts between 15 hrs and 5+ days after being put on the invite list.

It’s like getting that amazing new toy on Christmas and finding out batteries aren’t included. So you end up hunting through the house steeling batteries from remote controls. Well unfortunately there are no remotes to steal batteries from here. Google is holding all the remotes and there is nothing I can do about it except wait.

I’ll post my thoughts of it once my invite list get their accounts.

I’ve recently spent some time and money getting some new art supplies. Since the new album is almost done there will be a void in creativity. I’m going to fill it up with painting for the time being.

I’ll be attending some of the sketch sessions at the Scarab Club over the next couple of weeks. I’ll post pictures of the sessions and my work as it develops. I’m moving toward oil sticks for some reason, we’ll see how it turns out.

A simple cover of Midnight Radio from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

The new Any Day in June album will be available on 9.29.09

anydayinjune.com

I was recently invited to the Gilt website, which is a glorious discount hipster/style haven. Catering to both Men and Women, however the Woman’s section is much larger. Nonetheless the selections are amazing and while the prices aren’t bargain store they are drastically reduced. There is a strange mechanic to the site however. Because there are limited quantities of each item should you put something in your cart you end up reserving it. So you have a little time to checkout before it goes back on the rack. It’s kind of like carrying something around the store just to make sure no one else gets their hands on it. So you may end up adding something that isn’t available but the site will let you know if someone decides not to purchase it and one suddenly becomes available. I’m on the wait list for a scarf since fall is around the corner.

You must be a member to shop there but I have a few invites available. Just click the link below and enjoy!

Gilt Invitation